Landscape and memory

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the YearIn Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art. "A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books

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LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY

Gebruikersrecensie - Kirkus

With this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ...Volledige review lezen

LibraryThing Review

Gebruikersrecensie - JayLivernois - LibraryThing

I find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good.Volledige review lezen

Over de auteur (1995)

Simon Schama is Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.††He is the author of Citizens, Dead Certainties and An Embarrassment of Riches.††Simon Schama lives in New York with his wife and their two children.